My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he’s pretty good at paying the rent. – Robert Carlyle
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots. – Robert Carlyle
People go to the movies to watch a film and all they’re thinking about is the actress’s cellulite they saw in a magazine. – Robert Carlyle
Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don’t have to take it home with you at night. It’s the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting. – Robert Carlyle
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It’s such a gamble. – Robert Carlyle
I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy. – Robert Carlyle
I like to be working and moving – the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you’re lighting a shot. That just kills me. – Robert Carlyle
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. – Robert Carlyle
If there’s anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they’re gone. – Robert Carlyle
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world. – Robert Carlyle
The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father – he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life. – Robert Carlyle
I’ve really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week. – Robert Carlyle
Biologically, I’m lucky – an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera. – Robert Carlyle
Each performance and each film is what it is. It’s right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film. – Robert Carlyle
We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me. – Robert Carlyle
